Day 7: Time for Freedom?

February 26, 2011

Day 7. Jude has been caterwauling at night–the sound that is awfully like a cat in heat. Maybe Jude is a Judette? I can’t get close enough to tell. I’m thinking it’s time to give him an opportunity to leave the cage. The other kittens are quite used to their cage–they always eat in it. [...]

Day 6: Kitten Ambush

February 26, 2011

Day 6. I like routines, even just a micro-routine. I’m starting to want a little bit of one so I can manage our seven animals and all their food, toys, cages, kennels, litter accumulating in my tiny house. So I cleaned out one of my old clothes wardrobes and turned it into a cat closet. [...]

Taming Adventures: will this kitten ever eat?

February 23, 2011

This time around, I’m a little more prepared for the semi-sleepless nights listening to a kitten yowl for freedom. Little Jude (his temporary name since we can’t really see his personality yet) is starting his fifth day and still works up a good loud cry every hour. Yesterday he slowed down a bit and I [...]

Taming Adventures: the 5-month feral kitten

February 20, 2011

Today I trapped a kitten, the last from a litter of four that I have been socializing for several months. The first three were barely 8 weeks old when I caught them in my driveway on Thanksgiving weekend. The fourth escaped from our hands and hid under the shed for a day until his mother [...]

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That 70s Thing in Yellow

February 13, 2011

I’m in the mood for yellow. And that would make sense for half of the planet, which seems to have been experiencing the most snowy, dreary, plane-halting winter ever. But this mood has nothing to do with cabin fever. Here I am in a part of Texas which, until last week, frolicked around the 70s [...]

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